Body-hanger for vehicles.



I No. 635,7l8. Patented on. 24, I899.

J. FETZER. BODY HANGER FOB VEHICLES.

(Application filed July 20, 1699.)

(No Model.)

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JAMES J. FETZER, OF OOLUMBIANA, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE HERBRAND COMPANY, OF FREMONT, OHIO.

BODY-HANGER FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 635,718, dated October 24, 1899. Application filed July20, 1899. smart. 724,528. (N mOd L To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES J. FETZER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbiana, in the county of Oolumbiana and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Body-Hangers for Vehicles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention relates to the art of carriage-building, and has particular reference to the irons or hangers employed for attaching a vehicle-body to its supportingsprings and to the manner of applying same.

This being the nature of my invention, it has for its object and purposes the production of abody-hanger wherein is combined simplicity and cheapness of construction, greatstrength, and general efficiency. To these ends a simple forged attaching-plate of peculiar con figuration is employed and in conjunction therewith a double body-hanger for which said plate forms a central support, thus transferring all strains directly to that portion of the vehicle-springs best able to withstand them. In the construction of the hanger aforesaid ordinary merchant iron is employed, avoiding the expensive operation of drop-forging the parts in sections and Welding them together, manufacture of the device being thus.

simplified and its cost economized proportionately.

Theinvention willbe hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims following.

In the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention applied to an elliptical carriage-spring. Fig. 2 is also a perspective view showing the attaching-plate and in close proximity thereto a fragment of the body-hanger. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section on the line 3 3, Fig. 2, taken through the supporting-spring, its attachingplate, and the body-hanger, all assembled in operative relation.

Reference being had to the drawings and letters thereon, A indicates an elliptic spring of ordinary construction and mode of attachment to the running-gear of a vehicle.

'com plishing the same result.

B is an attaching-plate centrally clipped to the upper member of spring A, and Ois a double body-hanger in turn centrally secured to the plate B aforesaid.

Plate B is of substantially rectangular form, having upon opposite sidesfront and back perforated lugs a a and b b, respectively, with interposed bolt or clip holes 0 for purposes of attachment to the spring, while extending throughout the length of said plate, preferably upon its overhanging inner side I), is a concave depression or depressed seat E, open at each end and obstructed at one point therein by a raised lug d, as best shown by Fig. 2, the purpose whereof will later appear. By preference this attaching-plate B is forged with an overhanging edge or side D, indented by a semi-elliptical depression E, as illustrated; but it should be understood that the form and arrangement of said plate may be variously modified without departing from the spirit of the invention. For instance, the overhang D maybe omitted, a corresponding change of location being accorded depression E upon plate B, or the transverse shape of said depression may be variously changed from the semi-elliptical pattern herein illustrated to other outlines conforming to the sectional area of body-hanger O-such, for example, as a square, V-shaped, or polygonal depression. The hanger 0 herein shown is elliptical in cross-section and is firmly secured or bound in depression E by through bolts or clips F F, each passing down through apertures a c and adjustably secured beneath the upper member of spring A by means of clip-ties G, said hanger from its points of attachment being oppositely projected anddepressed, as indicated by Fig. l, terminating in horizontal brackets e e, to which the vehicle-body is firmly secured. At the center, or approx'b mately so, hanger O is slightly mutilated by a transverse groove H, designed and arranged to engage the lug d in depression E, thereby preventing a relative longitudinal movement of said parts, and while a particular form of groove and cooperating lug is shown, these, like the contour of depression E, may be greatly modified, or, if desired, several such lugs and grooves may be employed for ac- As a means of completing this structure and securing the whole in operative relation outer bolts I I are employed, and these, passing through boltholes I) b of plate B, are secured below to clipties G in the usual manner.

Having thus described the general construction of the present invention, its mode of operation is quite apparent and need not be herein dwelt upon at length. It will be particularly noted, however, that the employinent of a body-hanger substantially as shown and its peculiar central manner of attachment insures a structure of the greatest rigidity and effectiveness, one wherein all strains are reduced to a minimum and transferred to points best fitted to withstand then], and,[inally, a structure peculiarly economical in its form of construction, easily assembled, and readily repaired in the event of wear or breakage.

The foregoing being a description of the invention in its preferred form of embodim ent,-I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, the following:

1. The combination with a carriage-spring and an attaching-plate secured thereto, of a depressed seat in the surface of said plate, and a body-hanger secured in said seat, substantially as described.

2. The combination witha carriage-spring, and an attaching-plate secured thereto, of a depressed seat in the surface of said plate, a raised lug within said seat, and a body-hanger indented by a transverse groove for engaging the lug aforesaid, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I subscribe my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES J. FETZER.

Witnesses:

JAMES It. FORAKER, J. SAGMEISTER. 

